Flying Nun

NZ's most successful independent label turns 30, and says Happy Birthday to itself with this comprehensive two-disc set! Featuring Flying Nun artists from long ago and right now, it'll tickle the fancy of fans and noobs alike.

Having just signed to Flying Nun Records, 'We build our own Oppessors' is the first single for noisy Auckland trio Die! Die! Die! upcoming album, Form. Writen while holed up in winter in Dunedin's infamous Chicks Hotel, both the single and the album have plenty of the Die! Die! Die! style and cat...

Screens is the forthcoming third studio album from Portland, Oregon-based "troublegum pop" group The Mint Chicks. It is to be released on March 16, 2009 in New Zealand, the Chicks' homeland on Flying Nun Records. It was mixed in Portland, Oregon by the Nielson brothers and Jacob Portra...

The Clean includes: David Kilgour, Hamish Kilgour, Robert Scott, Peter Gutteridge. What the critics say... Spin (3/03, p.120) - 8 out of 10 - "...New Zealand's the Clean played surf rock like it was a winter sport, expanding jangle pop into boundless exotica..." Entertainment Weekly...

This wicked DVD contains a mammoth 41 videos produced for Flying Nun Records artists from 2004 back to 1981. The total running time has been pegged at around two and half hours, which is feature length in the film world. A lot of the video films feature the bands "performing" direct to camera (wi...

This is the CD re-issue of the Gordons terrifyingly original self-titled 1981 release. It includes the equally monstrous 3-song 'Future Shock' EP that spawned the band's well-known track 'Adults & Children'. "The Gordons drop every hint that they know a pop song or two, but refuse to...

Bailterspace compilation originally released in 2004, all tracks were also remastered in 2004 which did come in a digipak with artwork by Alister Parker and is no longer available. This version is the the standard jewel case version. Bailter Space (a.k.a. Bailterspace) is an atmospheric noise...

Metamathics: (n) (short form of 'metamathematics') The investigation of the properties of realities intrinsically unknowable by and from our own, but whose general principles can be hazarded at. -- Iain M Banks, 'Excession' It is nearly two decades since the HDU sound first reverberated from a ...

Wellington 6-piece indie rockers The Phoenix Foundation are very pleased to announce that their highly anticipated 3rd studio album Happy Ending will be released through Flying Nun Records on October 8, 2007!! Following their acclaimed, gold selling 2nd album Pegasus (released in 2005) The Phoenix ...

Recorded in crystaline beauty on the mobile Fish Street Recording Studio in May 2000 & finished in the abandoned Flying Nun Queen Street offices, 'United States' was THE classic Flying Nun release of 2000! From the brilliant pop damaged "Uh Oh" to the title track's ominous hypno-boogaloo, 'United...

Recorded and mixed in two sessions during 1996, The Clean yet again prove to be masters of musical innovation, three guys who can only amaze when they come together and throw all their ideas down on tape. Now re-issued, Unknown Country, is The Clean at their most timeless, fro...

Strange News from the Angels is the third and final album by New Zealand band The 3Ds. It was recorded in November 1995 in the relocated Fish St Studios (in Burlington St) on an old 3M 24 track. The album was released by Flying Nun Records in January 1997.

Shocking Pinks are a Christchurch based band, featuring ex-members of The Brunettes, Solaa and Substandard. Newly signed to the Nun, The Shocking Pinks' 'Mathematical Warfare' is the follow up to their acclaimed 'Dance The Dance Electric' album. "Wild at heart and rough around the edge...

Based around a winning formula of musicianship, strong melodies and sharp satirical lyrics, the Blams (as they were affectionately known) were widely touted as successors to Split Enz in the early eighties. Featuring one Don McGlashan (who went on to considerable fame with The Front Lawn and the Mut...

Time To Go explores the early history of Flying Nun from 1981-86, a ‘heroic period’ of lo-tech recording, handmade covers and ‘extended play’ 45s. Rather than being simply a ‘greatest hits’ from this period, the compilation brings together a collection of tracks from key South Island bands that w...